re git frowned upon. i think git is frowned upon because porting it would be a massive effort due to its many dependencies, whist python has been ported and mercurial just works.
-Steve > On 13 Feb 2018, at 23:37, Rui Carmo <rui.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> On 13 Feb 2018, at 19:10, Kurt H Maier <k...@sciops.net> wrote: >>> >>> For using QEMU’s virtualization features inside Hyper-V. >> >> If Hyper-V is still capable of running Xen guests, you may want to look >> at the code on sources for a start in that direction. That way you >> could skip linux altogether and just use the platform natively. > > I would very much like to do that. Marshaling the time to get Plan9 running > on Azure would be nice, but first I need to learn enough about the internals > by building the system for a platform that is already supported and that I > can experiment on easily (like the Pi 3). > > Also, it would have to be 64-bit, which would be an added challenge. I’d > rather start with ARM and cross-compile, which I’ve been doing for Android > for a few years now (can’t be much different even with the relatively > ancient^Wsimpler C compilers). > > Baby steps. And for me, one of those steps is setting up a DVCS (probably > Mercurial, because even if I’ve left it for git seven or so years ago I’d > like to give the opportunity for others to contribute, and git seems to be > frowned upon here), having good tracking (and backtracking) of my > experiments, and a reproducible build system that has no human intervention > (so that I don’t introduce any mistakes). > > Oh, and finding the time. > > R.
